Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Month: March 2016
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The Coiled Serpent: An Interview with the Poetry Anthology’s Creators La Bloga Monday, 2016-03-28 Daniel A. Olivas As already discussed here on La Bloga in a lovely review by Olga García Echeverría, Tía Chucha Press will publish this week a landmark poetry anthology, The Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes and Shifts of…
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Pao: A Novel Bloomsbury Publishing 2011-07-12 288 pages 5 1/2″ x 8 1/4″ Paperback ISBN: 9781608195077 EPUB eBook ISBN: 9781608196845 Kerry Young As a young boy, Pao comes to Jamaica in the wake of the Chinese civil war and rises to become the Godfather of Kingston’s bustling Chinatown. Pao needs to take care of some…
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Understanding and Hearing the Afro-Asian Atlantic Princeton University African American Studies 2016-03-21 Presenters: Tao Leigh Goffe, Kerry Young, Hannah Lowe, Randy Chin, and John Kuo Wei Tchen A panel exploring the intersections of literature, reggae, and the relationships between the minority Chinese community in the Caribbean and the majority Afro-Caribbean community This panel will be…
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Misty Copeland on Why She Talks About Being a Black Ballerina For Harriet 2016-02-24
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What Is Critical Race Theory? Harvard Magazine 2016-03-22 Marina Bolotnikova Khiara Bridges Photograph courtesy of Khiara Bridges RACIAL-JUSTICE ACTIVISTS at Harvard Law School (HLS) won one of the largest public battles over the school’s legacy this month, when the administration agreed to abandon the existing HLS shield. The shield was modeled after the crest of…
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W.T. Jones — Carthage’s best-kept secret: From slave to industrialist in the South The Courier-Tribune Ashboro, North Carolina 2016-03-15 Judi Brinegar (Contributed photo) He was born the son of a slave and her white owner in 1833. By time time of his death in 1910, William T. Jones was one of the prominent business owners…
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Jackie Kay the new Scots Makar, Shaping the Body Woman’s Hour BBC Radio 4 2016-03-25 The acclaimed writer Jackie Kay has just been announced as the next Scots Makar – Scotland’s national poet. She tells Jenni about the plans she has for her new role. Today a new exhibition examining how food, fashion and lifestyle…
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“I am Black,” Jane Lazarre’s son tells her. “I have a Jewish mother, but I am not ‘biracial.’ That term is meaningless to me.”